Example sentences for: desson

How can you use “desson” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Magic is signified by levitating people à la Mary Poppins , playing wind-chimes on the soundtrack or flooding a scene with dry ice" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). Roger Ebert (who manages to work the odd sexual euphemism "the old rumpy-pumpy" into his review for the second time in three months) defends the movie as fun fluff: "The movie is as light as a soufflé, as fleeting as a breath of pumpkin pie on the breeze from a widow's window" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). (This fan site has loads of pictures of the lovely Miss Gellar.)

  • "brilliantly inventive" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ) ...

  • The MTV-style editing leaves some critics dizzy, others complain that once again Stone is peddling "conventional wisdom disguised as manically charged, cutting-edge consciousness" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). (Visit the official site.)

  • Helen Mirren, playing the evil Mrs. Tingle, rises above the weak material--which only makes the film "even more painful" to watch (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). One critic dissents: Kevin Thomas, the Los Angeles Times ' always easy-to-please critic, flouts conventional wisdom and calls the film a "knockout directorial debut."

  • "When a movie quotes Descartes's 'I think, therefore I am' right at the beginning, you should probably consider yourself warned," writes the Washington Post 's Desson Howe.


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